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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814470
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Tekin, Erdal; Gershenson, Seth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213642
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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility … expansions for pregnant women and children during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine effects on several prenatal health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213646
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
Tekin, Erdal; Herbst, Chris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025620
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Tekin, Erdal; Herbst, Chris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321295
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The Business Cycle and Health Behaviors
Kaestner, Robert; Xu, Xin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
In this paper, we take a structural approach to investigate the effects of wages and working hours on health behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601694
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Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health?
Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We investigate the relationship between foreclosures and hospital visits using data on all foreclosures and all hospital and emergency room visits from four states that were among the hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. We find that living in a neighborhood with a spike in foreclosures is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251504
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228300
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Are investments in disease prevention complements? The case of statins and health behaviors
Kaestner, Robert; Darden, Michael; Lakdawalla, Darius - In: Journal of Health Economics 36 (2014) C, pp. 151-163
We obtain estimates of associations between statin use and health behaviors. Statin use is associated with a small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870830
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Long Term Effects of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws on Adult Alcohol Use and Driving Fatalities
Kaestner, Robert; Yarnoff, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We examine whether adult alcohol consumption and traffic fatalities are associated with the legal drinking environment when a person was between the ages of 18 and 20. We find that moving from an environment in which a person was never allowed to drink legally to one in which a person could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627112